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And we’re back from a great lunch for the best session of the day, about Siri, Google Now and Google Glass with the great Ari Nahmani, Barry Schwartz, and myself. Actually as I write this we haven’t even gone to lunch yet. Since I’m on this panel I had to pre-blog it, but I think […]

In the 90s businesses had to get their computer networks to know all of the information that was in their paper documents. They even had to teach those computers how to talk to other companies’ computers. It was a lot of work, and there were a lot of missteps, but the information revolution really did […]

Lot of great lessons from KahenaCon. Here were the best: Best lines Aaron Friedman: I have these companies paying me a ton of money and I say can you change this title tag and they’re like No. SEO is a support role for everyone else. That’s how you need to look at it. Whatever you […]

Was privileged to hear user experience expert Jared Spool. Here’s the best of what he said: Best lessons Compared best and worst UX companies. The best had three characteristics: Shared vision of what the experience would be like in 5 years Everybody had spent at least 2 hours watching people use the product during the […]

I had the privilege of speaking at MegaComm last week, which allowed me to hear Dave Carroll of United Breaks Guitars fame. I’m ashamed to admit that my first impression was that this was a one hit wonder still barely holding on to his fifteen minutes of fame. But he quickly won me over and […]

Anybody remember Google’s first April Fool’s joke? I’ll get to that in a second. Quick hint is Steven Levy’s observation that the real Google April Fool’s joke was that “even the scariest plans that Google joked about were the kind of thing that Google’s leaders actually dreamed about.” Google is obsessed with artificial intelligence. Giving […]

Best lines and lessons Roi Ben Ami: Females always win. [Discussing A/B test results regarding male vs female faces on landing pages] Successful landing pages help the user paint the picture of what happens after the conversion. Uri Breitman: If you delete a site, you have to shift delete it. You can’t redirect its pages […]

“Like Virginia, Florida remains too close to call. There Obama leads Mitt Romney at just 48 to 47 percent–less than the polls margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.” Virginia race too close to call, CBS Virginia If you’re following the election polls, you’re accustomed to hearing a reporter announce the poll results […]

The latest Pew Poll shows that only 64% of Governor Romney’s supporters expect their man to win, and only 17% expect their man to lose. 82% of President Obama’s supporters expect their man to win, with only 3% expecting him to lose. In theory, the question of who should win and who will win are […]

Pubcon was great! Here’s the best from the conference: Best lines Jerry West: SEO will never be dead until Matt Cutts says the new algorithm is paid search. [On the one year anniversary of Leo Laporte’s PubCon keynote prediction that SEO would likely be dead in six months] Matt Cutts: Think of the link disavowal tool […]